A Fabergé silver coffee pot, Riga, late 19th century

in neoclassical taste, of tapering rounded square section with incurved corners, moulded with gadroons and acanthus leaves, the front engraved with the Imperial Eagle, in associated fitted case embossed with initials J.J.P., struck K Fabergé in Cyrillic beneath the Imperial Warrant, scratched inventory number 6166 or 9919, 84 standard

Excellent condition. The insulators, which were most likely ivory originally, have been replaced with mother-of-pearl.
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This single-serving coffee pot, probably intended for use on a breakfast tray, is of the type of silver object seen in Fabergé's 1893 Moscow sales catalogue, some of which was of foreign or provincial manufacture.